Obituaries, Death Notices and Eulogies

Obituaries, Death Notices and Eulogies

Obituary / Death Notice

An Obituary is a notice of a persons Death in the newspaper. As part of the funeral arrangements, it is customary to put a death notice in the newspaper to inform your community as well as paying respect to the deceased. Funeral Guide’s Poetry and Inspirational Quotes will help you find words to express your feelings. Seeing the beautiful heart felt words others will help inspire your creative writing spirit.

Funeral Notice

Funeral arrangements include placing a funeral notice in the local newspaper to announce the time and place where the funeral will be held. This gives members of the community a chance to attend the funeral service and pay their respects. Funeral parlours will often put the funeral notice in the paper for you. They will usually ask you what wording you would like to use, if you wish to personalize the funeral notice.

A Eulogy

A Eulogy can be a written tribute to the deceased, or a speech delivered at a funeral or memorial service for the deceased. Funeral Guide has a few resources to help you in writing and delivering a eulogy as well as various pages of poetry and inspirational quotes which are tremendously helpful to add that poetic touch to the funeral speeches.

Quotes

"Tears are the words the heart can't express"

Author unknown

“Here is a test to find whether your mission on earth is finished: If you’re still alive, it isn’t.”

Richard Bach, (Illusions)

"I wrote your name in the sand, but the waves washed it away. I wrote your name in the sky, but the wind blew it away. So I wrote your name in my heart, and that's where it will stay, always"

"The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it"

W.M. Lewis

"There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are messengers of overwhelming grief...and unspeakable love."

Washington Irving

Strive not, my soul, for an immortal life, but make the most of what is possible.”

Pythian Odes, 518 – 438BC

"Death gives us sleep, eternal youth, and immortality."

Jean Paul Richter

"Dream as if you'll live forever, live as if you'll die today"

James Dean

"God saw you getting tired, when a cure was not to be, so he wrapped his arms around you, and whispered - come to me."